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Carl is boat less so he convinced me to take him fishing today, despite the fact that I fished yesterday and drove a total of 340 miles for the day. I put him on a guilt trip for sure.

Anyway, I also invited Bob Morgan (Osprey) to come along so we could show him how and where to catch white perch in Weems and Spa creeks.

I met up with Carl around 0545 and 40 minutes later, we picked up Bob at his home in Forrestville. On to the ramp we went! Carl kept challenging Bob and told him how we had to catch enough perch to feed this large Viet Nameese family he knows and how our "record" was 111 WP.

We started out in the Spa Creek honey hole. Carl and Bob each caught three (including a nice double header) and I caught one.



It was a clear and cool morning but with some stiff East winds. All the big boats were being cleaned, they always look spotless!!



While the creeks were calm, the Severn River was churning a bit, just what Carl likes. We then went up to Weems to get serious, we needed to show Bob what was to be.....

Well.....it didn't happen that way. I don't know how it happened so fast, but at one point, I had 6 perch, Carl had 13 and Bob was up in the mid 20's. He was throwing every lure in the book at 'em and catching them all. it was humbling....stunning.....debilitating....all of these words and then some. He was smoking us....he even caught this nice Yellow Perch!



Carl did catch quite a few of the bigger horse perch.....




After the fishing lesson, I decided to take us back to Spa creek since the weather looked like it was going to turn for the worse. I motored up to a spot that I had done well at and proceeded to catch some.  I did manage to make a little dent in Bob's leads but I caught up to Carl ....needless to say, he did not like that and got very serious. By now, Bob was so far ahead that Carl simply concentrated on making sure I did not catch more fish than him.

At 2 PM, we were all worn out....we should have been as we worked hard for these perch. Casting was difficult and we had many a snag.

At the end, Bob caught 67 WP!!  Carl had 41 and I ended up with 40. That is a grand total of 148 quality white perch for the day! All on ultra light tackle and all on artificials.

As Bob said, having that much fun should be illegal!